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@that met A. E..-PEOK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Leners Patent No. 96,143, dated october 26, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

which will enable others skilled'in the art'to maket and u'se the same,.ref erence being had to the 'accompanyin f drawings, forming part of this speciication,`

in whic Figure 1 is a side view of my improved holder, made in the form of a pistol.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, made in the form of a cannon. v j

Similar letters of. reference indicate corresponding parts.`

My 4invention has for'its yobject to furnish an improved holder for fire-crackers, While being discharged, in such a way that the cracker may be discharged or exploded with perfect safety, while projecting the shell of the fire-cracker'from'the muzzle of the holder, and which shall at the same time be breech-loading; and

It consists 4inthe breech-loading re-craoker holder,

constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

The barrel of the holder is made in two parts, A and B, the line' of division passing through the ltouch-hole, and dividing the barrel into two nearly equal parts.

The parts A and B of the barrel of the holder are kept in proper position by a rubber band, O, passing around the two parts of the holder opposite or nearly opposite the middle part of the {ire-cracker, when in- `serted in the holder.

1 In placing the fire-cracker iu the` holder, the rear end of the shorter cir-upper part A of the vholder is raised sufficiently to4 allow the fire-cracker to be inserted, the fuse of the lire-cracker passing through the groove in the breechof the part B, which, in conuec` tion with the corresponding groove in the rear end of the part A, forms the touch or fuse-hole. By this construction, when thefire-craeker is vvdischarged or exploded, the band C gives, allowing the developed gases to escape, in part, through lthe opening between 'the two parts A and B, the shell'of the fire-cracker being projected from the muzzle of the holder with suicient force to carry it to a considerable distance, if unobstructed,but not with suiicient force to harm any one if he should be accidentally hit. In fact, the projected shell maybe caught in the v hand without'harm, as itl issues from the muzzle of the holder.

The stock or handle of the holderA B O may be ymade to resemble a pistol, as -shown in fig.1, or a can- The above specification of my invention signed by me, thisl 24th day of May, 1869.

A. E. PEOK, M. D.

y Witnesses:

FRANK BLooKLEY, J AMES T. GRAHAM. 

